Roy Strom

August 31, 2017 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Beleaguered midsized San Francisco firm Sedgwick's loss is Hartford-based Robinson & Cole's gain this week as 12 attorneys from the West Coast firm, including four partners, have relocated to the latter firm's New York and Miami offices.

By Roy Strom

6 minute read

August 31, 2017 | Legaltech News

Bryan Cave has developed a straightforward yet remarkably rare strategy for adapting to new, technologically driven change: Ask the associates.

By Roy Strom

34 minute read

August 31, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Bryan Cave's Business Academy is a boot camp for young lawyers interested in figuring out ways technology can make the firm more efficient.

By Roy Strom

34 minute read

August 30, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Jeremy Gilman retired from Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff earlier this month on his 62nd birthday. He's already put out an album, is working on a second and has plans to write a blog and launch “new media” startups. Oh, and he's hanging his own shingle.

By Roy Strom

9 minute read

August 28, 2017 | The American Lawyer

A group of 12 lawyers, including four partners, have joined Am Law 200 firm Robinson & Cole in New York and Miami in the latest round of defections from the reeling Sedgwick, which has lost more than 30 partners so far this year.

By Roy Strom

22 minute read

August 25, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals stepped into a minefield in a viral custody battle over the so-called Rally Cat. How could the team know that the lawyer on the other side of its feline fight would have a history garnering outsize media attention for trivial cases?

By Roy Strom

6 minute read

August 24, 2017 | The American Lawyer

A former Faegre Baker Daniels associate's law license was suspended for nine months after she inflated or fabricated time entries worth nearly $40,000 to meet a billable hour expectation. Inexcusable, sure. But an expert said it is symptomatic of the pressure Big Law lawyers face to meet hourly requirements.

By Roy Strom

26 minute read

August 22, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Philadelphia-based Abelson Legal Search claims that Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz owes it $350,000 as a result of its combination last year with Baltimore's Ober Kaler. The suit filed in a federal court in Memphis also seeks $1 million in punitive damages.

By Roy Strom

50 minute read

August 22, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Steven Wernikoff, a 17-year veteran of the Federal Trade Commission, will co-lead Detroit-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn's practice advising on issues related to the fast-growing field of autonomous vehicles.

By Roy Strom

15 minute read

August 21, 2017 | The American Lawyer

Joining a crowd of positive reports on law firms' first half financial performance, Wells Fargo Private Bank said Tuesday that the first half of 2017 was a surprising financial success for law firms, largely thanks to the performance of the largest and most profitable among them.

By Roy Strom

3 minute read